Part II. Adaptation on the page and on the stage : re-inscribing the Greek classics. Adaptation and the transtextual palimpsest : Anne Carson's Antigonick as a textual/visual hybrid / Vayos Liapis. Part I. Adapting Greek tragedy : definitions, conceptual foundations, ethics. Definitions : adaptation and related modalities / Katja Krebs -- Forsaking the fidelity discourse : the application of adaptation / Peter Meineck -- Translation and/as adaptation / Lorna Hardwick -- Adaptation as a love affair : the ethics of directing the Greeks / Avra Sidiropoulou -- Part II. Adaptation on the page and on the stage : re-inscribing the Greek classics. Speaking up : theatre practitioners on adapting the classics -- The view from the archive : performances of ancient tragedy at the National Theatre, 1963-1973 / Adam Lecznar -- Compromise, contingency, and gendered adaptation : the case of Malthouse's Antigone / Jane Montgomery Griffiths -- Technology, media and intermediality in contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy / Peter Campbell -- Violence in adaptations of Greek tragedy / Simon Perris -- Adaptations of Greek tragedies in non-Western performance cultures / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Cultural identities : appropriations of Greek tragedy in post-colonial discourse / Elke Steinmeyer -- Trapped between fidelity and adaptation? On the reception of ancient Greek tragedy in modern Greece / Anastasia Bakogianni -- Adaptation and the transtextual palimpsest : Anne Carson's Antigonick as a textual/visual hybrid / Vayos Liapis.
Summary:
"Adaptations of Greek tragedy are increasingly claiming our attention as a dynamic way of engaging with a dramatic genre that flourished in Greece some 25 centuries ago but remains as vital as ever. In this volume, fifteen leading scholars and practitioners of the theatre systematically discuss contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy and explore the challenges and rewards involved therein. Adopting a variety of methodologies, viewpoints and approaches, the volume offers surveys of recent developments in the field, engages with challenging theoretical issues, and shows how adapting Greek tragedy can throw new light on a range of contemporary issues - from our relation to the classical past and our shifting perceptions of ethnic and cultural identities to the place, function and market-value of Greek drama in today's cultural industries. The volume will be welcomed by students and scholars in Classics, Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies, as well as by theatre practitioners"-- Provided by publisher.
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